Unravelling a crisis: The state of rural affordable housing in England

A report from CPRE, the countryside charity which reveals impact of overlooked rural housing crisis and explains how the next government can fix it.

People are being driven out of the countryside by record house prices, low wages and a proliferation of second homes and short-term lets.

Homelessness is up 40% since 2018 in rural England, where the average house price is now £419,000.

300,000 people waiting for social housing in rural England, a backlog that would take 89 years to clear at current rates of construction.